Posts by Tom 35

Re: Ad volume

In Canada they require that the volume be the same, so they run the ads through dynamic range compression so they read the same on a VU meter, but sound louder to your ear.

They always find a way to be irritating.

Re: You /need/ to be online?

Blizzard might be great now, but they could be bought by scumbags, go tits up, get hit by a falling satellite...

MMORPGs need to be online by definition.

Re: Earthquakes Destroy Roads, Trucks *need* Roads

And how are the trucks going to be "wired into the rest of the cellular infrastructure"

Do they think the cell network will be destroyed in one location, and working 5k up the road where the truck is?

I could see a truck (off road capable) with a satellite link, and a blimp antenna that could be used to provide communication for a team(s) of rescue workers.

Re: Nobody blames thieves

That might be the excuse, but Sony was selling PS3 below cost, and making it up on games.

People were buying batches of PS3s and networking them into low cost high power number crunching systems. They were not buying games, they were costing Sony money, so they had to die.

Time is money

A tax of 10% of your income could also be considered a tax of 10% of your time. So the burger flipper and the CEO both pay the same ~ 36 days worth of income in tax. Look at it that way and it's also a flat fee.

Re: Copying Apple

Taking a cut of everything has nothing to do with it eh? Just to make things better for the typical user, right.

Re: Though technically,

No you can do it with electromagnets. You induce a current in the aluminium then you can repel the resulting magnetic field. I saw a demo with a floating aluminium puck at the local science centre.

But I don't think you could put a magnet big enough to push an empty pop can away into that thing and power it.

Unless they have mastered cold fusion and high temperature superconducting magnets there is no way it could lift it's own weight.

This is about as real as the flying car in Harry Potter.

Re: First question they'll ask

That's how they save paper...

Do they get to expense their angry birds so they have something to do in the house?

No

We should sue every car manufacturer for advertising a car that can go over 70mph, but can only do it by driving off a cliff.

When we do get LTE Advanced, I expect some one is going to call it 5G.

Re: Paper Books are so 20th Century

Why do you think a publisher should get a cut if I sell my used book? Should Honda get a cut if I sell my car too?

Or just trolls

Having a LOL while they wait for their torrents to finish.

Re: Kismet

"It's quite reasonable that the investigators would want to ask that question directly."

If the answer was going to be something like "Mr. Big Cheese told us to grab everything we could" you can be sure they would not want them talking to anyone.

Buy shit on stick?

Are you kidding? That stuff is crap!

Re: Ads?

Kick Me!

Only if they are not US millonaires

See online betting for an example.

Re: confident, aren't they?

"They have issues with factual information in criticisms."

It said they have issues, not that the facts are wrong.

Something like say reference to drunken parties and prostitutes might be something a government official might "have issues with" even if true.

Re: ... including China and Saudi Arabia...

Don't forget Canada if the current "your with us or the pedos" law passes.

Re: Are they?

"the purchasers of netbooks were confused and bemused by Linux, and its inability to run their beloved Windows apps, and voted with their wallets."

So that's it for Windows RT then eh? They are even calling it Windows so people are really going to be confused!

Re: I do not believe I have seen a Nokia Lumia in the wild.

Riding the subway every day I see lots of iPhones, Android, BlackBerry, and assorted feature phones but not one Lumina, or any winphone for that mater.... I did see a zune once.

Marketing? There were some dumb TV ads a few months back. And Hawaii 5 O is a 22 minute ad (why don't you bing it on your winphone my ass).

Re: Baa!

One for sheep?

Re: R&D

Nokia had too many managers all trying to push R&D at the latest trend. So they just ended up herding cats. Lots of effort but no results.

Unlike HP who made ads about cat herding http://youtu.be/m_MaJDK3VNE

but outsourced it all to India. Costs less, but still no results.

What is a mobile device?

A laptop? A netbook? A 10 year old tablet running windows xp tablet?

No one got in trouble for them being "mobile".

So how is a 10" Android tablet a mobile device and a 10 year old xp tablet not.

It's one thing when your talking about a Moto Razer with it's crappy Java golf game, But today's phones are more capable then a lot of desktop computers from the time that restriction was made.

Re: If you don't like it, sell

First strip the company and give us all the cash, then we can sell and take our money some place else and you can keep the empty shell.

Re: Unibody?

They could event some kind of external antenna. Apple would be the only one with an external antenna and could sue anyone who tried to copy them.